Wednesday, October 8, 2014

A broken dream - with Jamie's Italian kitchen HK

I was curious to check how this place could be (a few weeks ago) and got excited that we could get a table as walk-in.  No need to queue, but every situation has its reasons....
The shop's entrance is quite commercial (has to be) and looks like it's a shopping mall rather than a restaurant as you need to take a long escalator to go up on the 2nd floor.  The menu design is a bit boring-trendy to me.  The whole place is quite dim and good for those who like to talk loud.
So I got mushroom pie, green apple walnut salad, a crab meat pasta, a grilled free range chicken.  The mushroom pie is at average.  The apple walnut salad - apple soaked in water for too long that the apple flavour went away.  Walnut too little to be tasted.  The salad dressing is too greasy and the beetroot is too bland.  The most disappointing dish is the crab meat pasta.  As I asked how big the big size is, I got told "it's about a size of 2 fists".  Turned out it's smaller than a Thai noodle portion, and there are only 3 tiny pieces of crab meats.  If it's less than HK$100, I wouldn't say anything, but it's HK$188.  Most of all, the pasta's texture is very mashy on the outside but hard (not al-dente) inside.  The sauce is a bit too diluted.  As I thought if my taste buds weren't in a good condition, the grilled chicken got me the answer "no".  It's super salty and that tiny rocket salad (check the lemon slice as the proportion) is very salty too.  Double salty.  The little better one is their brownie and the tiramisu is average.  Anyway, after all these years, this night my dream got broken disastrously.....  :(  Wish it didn't arrive here.

5 comments:

Stella said...

So not all Jamie Oliver related places are good then.
I think his name is overly used and abused already.

in the sea said...

At least the supervision is needed to maintain certain level.

Stella said...

That is true.

Stella said...

So I just read about this in "Eat and Travel Weekly".
The food price is very reasonable though.
The waiting is one hour here for lunch?
The kids menu is 3D kind of cool.
Thank you for the nice photos here Sea.

in the sea said...

It depends. If the pasta texture isn't that bad, HK$188 for that mini portion (they claimed the biggest one) isn't expensive considering Jamie's name, regardless of the 3 thin pieces of crab meat.